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Lionel Bringuier: “Being invited to Aix is ​​a huge joy!”

2022-01-21T14:20:21.242Z


MUSIC – The young conductor expresses his joy at participating in the great Easter festival in Aix-en-Provence. He also looks back on his amazing journey.


At 35, the Niçois is still a French prodigy in management.

The man who was fifteen years old the youngest student conductor of the CNSM in Paris, before becoming less than five years later the youngest assistant of the Los Angeles Philharmonic (and the first Frenchman appointed to this position), has been for two seasons back in his hometown as associate artist of the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra.

A phalanx with which he has established an intimate and special relationship, and which he will take to Aix-en-Provence for Easter.

LE FIGARO.

- What does your first visit to the Easter Festival inspire in you?

Lionel BRINGUIER.

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Immense joy.

First on a personal level, because Renaud Capuçon is someone I appreciate and esteem enormously.

As much for the many moments shared on stage with him, as for his strength to undertake.

Then and above all, for the orchestra.

As a Niçois, its musicians particularly touch me.

It's an orchestra that I heard as a child, which accompanied my first musical emotions.

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Since I started my work with him as an associate artist two years ago, I have never ceased to marvel at his qualities, unanimously praised by the soloists I have been able to bring to the orchestra. .

Despite these qualities, the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra still suffers from an obvious lack of notoriety… A lack that this invitation to the festival, like our coming to the Chorégies d'Orange next summer, will allow us to fill!

In view of your career and your experiences with the greatest orchestras in the world, how would you describe it?

From the sound point of view, the high quality of its string sections makes it a marvelous servant of the Russian repertoire, which is why I chose Tchaikovsky's

Symphony No. 5

for the second part of the concert. At the same time, its small harmony is crossed by eminently French colors, which in Ravel's

Concerto en sol

, for example, know how to seduce Hélène Grimaud just as well as Jean-Yves Thibaudet. It is this ability to follow the colors of each soloist that I would like to develop even more with them, by being the link between them and the soloist. And that's what we're going to look for in Max Bruch's concerto with Renaud in particular.

During the pandemic, our teams have shown not only resilience, but also great adaptability.

Lionel Bringuier

Beyond the Nice Philharmonic, the Easter Festival wanted to focus this year on French orchestras.

How do you view our symphonic landscape?

A gaze full of kindness and gratitude.

During fifteen years when I was alternately assistant and associate conductor in Los Angeles, musical director in Valladolid, then at the Tonhalle in Zurich, I practically never conducted in France.

Or very little.

Recently, I had the opportunity to confront myself with many orchestras in France: Paris, Nice and Lyon, of course.

But also Lille, which I managed for the first time only two years ago, or even Metz where I was able to spend a week last December.

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Each time I was amazed by the great discipline, the quality of the work, but also and above all the communicative pleasure of playing that emerged within these phalanxes.

In the world in general, the technical level has risen considerably.

So much so that almost anywhere you can start talking about music from the first rehearsal, without having to worry about wrong notes.

But this enthusiasm is a French exception.

It has also shown its full value during the pandemic, where our training courses have shown not only resilience, but also a great capacity for adaptation... And a real desire to serve the community, at their level. which surrounded them.

Source: lefigaro

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